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Renting out your boat to cover the costs: licences, taxes and the part nobody mentions

What Spanish law asks before your boat earns money: the register, the 12% tax trap, 21% VAT, and why splitting fuel with friends is a grey area.

What your boat insurance covers when someone else takes the helm

In Spain the compulsory policy follows whoever you authorise to skipper. What it covers, what it never does, and five questions for your insurer.

How much does it cost to keep a boat a year? The 2026 sums

There is no single honest number. There is the list of costs, the two that Spanish law fixes with a formula, and a way to find your own figure.

How many days a year is a boat actually used?

The most solid figure we could find is 19 days. Where it comes from, what it hides, and why “use your boat more” is the wrong lesson to draw from it.

The European anchorages every sailor should discover at least once in their lives

Eight anchorages across the continent worth planning a season around, from the Amalfi Coast to the Lofoten Islands.

Where The Seafolk started

A pattern spotted somewhere else entirely, a question asked half as a joke, and the two walls every earlier attempt at boat swapping ran into.